Korea war risks have risen despite summit diplomacy-3

Ultimately, that escalation of
risks created an option for
diplomacy. Ironically, Trump's
credible threat of the use of
force drove South Korea to the table, desperately seeking
a diplomatic solution that
would avoid the calamity of
war on the Peninsula. With a
desperate South and a China
seeking to placate an intemperate U.S. president,
Kim sensed and seized the
opportunity, in short order
meeting South Korea's
President Moon Jae-in and
President Xi Jinping of China. The meeting of the two Korean
leaders produced only a
watery agreement to agree at
a later phase on issues to be
agreed. But Kim was riding
high, and Trump moved to get in on the act with his own offer
of a summit, followed by a
stunning indication that the
U.S. was willing to pull its
troops out of the South in
exchange for denuclearization -- basically meeting Kim's
terms.Source:Asian Review